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My oldest is a longland pattern 1756 Brown Bess Musket used during the French and Indian War.
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Colt New Service 1917. Date of Manufacture 1919
Cut down to a 2.5" snubby
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Colt M1911 manufactured in 1918, armory re-build with M1911A1 slide, nickeled and issued to MPs at Seventh Army HQ, Stuttgart, GE, for post-WWII occupation duties, liberated by MP and returned to the USA.
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My oldest is an old top break .32 by the Forehand Arms Co., sometime in the 1890-1898 time period after Wadsworth retired. Still, it sports F&W grips . . . probably quite original from this maker of lower-cost firearms.
It's even older than the Remington .41 rim fire derringer below it, for the top of the Remington barrel is marked "REMINGTON ARMS - U.M.C. CO. ILION, N.Y.," meaning it was made during the 1910-1935 time period . . . the last barrel marking type that started with the merger of Remington with U.M.C. by their parent company.
Neither specimen is valuable to collectors.
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My oldest is an 1851 Deane Adams and Deane cap and ball revolver in 38 bore thats .50 cal. It has an unfluted 5 shot chamber and takes 44 odd grains of black powder in each of them....on top of that it is double action only....you know you are alive when you shoot 5 shots of .50 cal with those sort of charges behind them double action! (Yes she still shoots!)
In the pic she is the middle monster above my 27-2 for comparison and below her sucessor a .442 cal cap and ball Beaumont Adams double (and single) action from 1854. She still shoots too
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the oldest in the family ... 12 ga black powder percussion of unknown vintage
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I believe my family's oldest gun is a 1901 M94 Winchester .32 Special. It says. "For smokeless powder only" on the barrel. There are a few notches near the lever part of the stock. I asked my dad what those were and he said, well, those were cut out whenever somebody killed a deer with it. After about 7 or 8 notches they figured maybe they'd best quit, or they'd have a stockless rifle. Until then, a few Minnesota deer met their ends. Shot straight as an arrow, which was good for me, as that was my beginning deer gun for a few years.
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I have a few 1895 Nagants - the oldest is from the 1930's.
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1918 Swedish Mauser Model 94.
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Leman Lancaster Pa Kentucky long rifle with tiger maple stock approx year late 1830's to early 40's
As a kid I remember my dad shooting it.
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Ithaca model 37 era 1957 - kicks like a mule but I love it. My dad gave it to me when I completed the NRA safety courses at age 7 - brought home a lot of pheasants with that gun.
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Please allow me to indulge. I am not a collector but a "gatherer" (?).
Winchester 1886, 45-70, made 1889.
Winchester 1897, 12 ga, made 1902, marked "Adams Express Co"
Winchester 1895, 30 US, made 1906
Winchester 1894, 32 spl, made 1902
S& W lemon squeezer, 38 S & W, made about 1910
S & W 1917, US marked, made 1918.
S & W Victory 38 S & W, marked "Bavarian Rural Police", made 1942
S & W model 1902, made 1904-5
Colt 1917, US marked, made 1918
Colt Woodsman, made 1925 (about)
Browning A-5 skeet special from the early 1920's
Ithaca Lewis from 1902-1905
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I thought I had commented on this thread, but after looking, I hadn't. Must be getting old.
I have a 1842 .69 musket, dated 1845, built in Harper's Ferry, Virginia. I'm betting it saw action against both Mexicans and Yankees.
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an original smoothebore in about 20 ga no markings, I still shoot it on occassion, it killed me a turkey a couple of years ago. Wish it could talk, it is well seasoned.
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My oldest gun is my Great Grandads, 1889, Model 1886 Winchester in 45-90.
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The oldest gun that I own is a 1920-1930s? Winchester 12 gauge single shot shotgun. It was past down to my father and my father past it down to me. I think it was my great grandfathers shotgun
I think I have a photo of it, let me see if I can't dig it up.
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Rats, I don't have a picture of it..... I have to change that soon
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I don't know if I posted this here or not, but it doesn't show on a search, so here it is.
My oldest is a Colt Official Police from 1939. I took it shooting once after I got it. It's a good shooter.
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Spanish pinfire pistol about 1860s, my Dad picked it up in a flea market over there in the late 1950s
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The oldest is a Wesson Shotgun, sn 170 made circa 1869.
Check of factory records show a blank space. Guess is it never left the factory until after the sale in 1870. Proof books does show it was proofed, but no date.
Barrel is stamped SMITH & WESSON.
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My oldest is what's left of a Short Land Pattern Brown Bess, probably late 18th century or early 19th. My great, great grandfather owned it in Nova Scotia; I think he got it in the 1850s when the British Army probably surplussed them after having adopted the Enfield Rifled Musket.
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Remington Rolling Block .43cal. spanish Rifle
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Trapdoor Rifle, Ithaca NID, Acme Arms shotgun. Late 1800's
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A WWII Nazi Luger.
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have a smith 13 and 18 that may be a bit older.
bought an early springfied ultra match m1a in 1984 used for $600
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It was formerly owned by a good friend, now passed, and at some point I plan to give it to his daughter for her sons to treasure - as I have for many years.
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I have two frequently used guns from 1890 and both are excellent shooters, made by Husqvarna.
My very oldest started life in 1867 as a Swedish-made Remington-licensed Rolling Block in 12,1744R and was converted in 1892 to 8X58 Rimmed Danish. It is still in original military configuration and was a prize in one of Sweden's national shoots in 1943. It shoots very well with GC cast bullets at 1300 to 2200 fps, giving 5-shot groups at 200 yards in the 4-5 inch range.
One from 1890 is a 1887 Nagant Officer's Revolver in 7,5 Swedish Nagant and is easily one of my best-shooting revolvers. I load it with slightly modified 32-20 cases containing 0,315 diameter 118 grain, soft-cast 32-20 bullets and enough Hodgdon 777 FFg to match 32-20 ballistics from S&W and Colt M&P, etc. DA revolvers. It is my best point-and-shoot revolver, as well as best BP revolver I have ever used -- it was designed for use with BP.
Second from 1890 is a Husqvarna M43 top lever hammer double, 16 gauge with early fluid steel barrels, which are heavy walled because fluid steel was not then considered as strong as the high quality Damascus barrels from Belgium, which were on higher priced versions of this gun. It is a totally plain, long-barreled (31,5 inches) hunting gun that was heavily used in Sweden. Its right barrel is cylinder, likely used with 16 gauge round balls for moose -- such round ball loads, with balls fitted to bore and loaded in thin-walled brass cases, are quite accurate and powerful enough for punching 16-kaliber holes through moose lungs at 50-70 meters in Sweden's dark forests. Other barrel on such guns were tight-choked. I have used this gun many times for ducks with 28 grams of Bismuth-Tin alloy shot, which gives approximately 1/4 choke patterns from cylinder barrel and tight full choke patterns from other barrel. Great over decoys, jump shooting, etc.
I have a few other Husvqarna top lever hammer doubles that have been heavily used with Bismuth shot for ducks and geese, with lead shot for quail, doves and pheasant. These are only hunting shotguns I have used in past decade.
As someone earlier in this thread said, I find myself as well equipped with these guns as with my modern ones.
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since I recently sold an Enfield from the 40's, my oldest gun would probably be my grandfather's Winchester Model 12 shotgun. Probably from the 50's. Still shoots very well, when I feel like carrying that cannon.
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Old Man-what is that about 6th from the left that looks like it has kind of a white barrel? And nice looking A-5. Flapjack.
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It is called many things. Some call is a Light 12. Others call it a Auto 5 or A-5.
The paperwork that came with it new says Browning Auto 12 gauge.
I know it was way ahead of it's time and has features not found on guns today. It will reach out a lot longer distances than any of my newer shotguns.
But it was $453 back in 1953. That was more than most people would make in two months back then. And for those not old enough to remember, there were no Visa, Mastercard or American Express back then.
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I have a Marlin OK derringer in .30 short rimfire........it was made around 1860-1865 also have a almost full box of Winchester ammo from the same time period......not worth much but interesting....
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Model 1908 Clement .25 auto that I picked up as a project gun. Murky barrel, broken mag spring repaired with brass tubing, broken ejector replaced with a new part made from a K-frame hammer block and broken mainspring replaced with a cut and double stacked K-frame mainspring. The finished product has S&W lineage, not only from the replacement parts but also because S&W acquired the patents for the design and later used them for the Escort and other .22 autos. Shoots as good as it looks now that it actually works.
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Remington Rolling Block #4 .22 rifle (mid 19-teens). My S&W .32 Long Regulation Police is lettered and was shipped in December, 1927. I shoot both of them and they are quite accurate.
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A Winchester Model 67, single-shot .22 rifle. Don't know the year it was made, but it doesn't have a serial number.
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